"When the World We Have Trusted In Is Vanishing"
A special episode, in memoriam
Walter Brueggemann, the great Christian scholar of the biblical prophets, died on June 5, 2025. Yet, in the lineage of the prophets, who called humanity to face its hardest realities, this profound, warm, and timeless conversation is a stunning offering straight into our present.
We are lifting this episode out of the archive to mark this moment. Krista felt particularly called to point to this unedited version of their conversation, which was previously edited to meet time constraints, as the full discussion has such timely resonance.
“The amazing contemporaneity of this material,” Walter Brueggemann says to Krista in this conversation from 2011, “and we relive by relistening, is that the issues are the same: the world we have trusted in is vanishing before our eyes and the world that is coming at us feels like a threat to us and we can’t quite see the shape of it.”
Listen wherever podcasts are found. You can also watch the video of this conversation between Krista and Walter Brueggemann on our YouTube page.
Our true leaders never seem to be in politics? I suppose it would corrupt them as it has others, and the corruption of government would be perpetuated? Brueggeman maintained godly purity and is missed. May his spirit though continue to inspire.
Thank you so much. Walter Brueggeman shaped the way I learned to see the world, learned how to listen, and learned how to give joyfully. An extraordinary man!